Andrea Moro (1962)
orcid.org/0000-0002-6602-5871
Founder and former director of NeTS, former Head of the Department of Cognitive, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Vice Rector of the Institute for Advanced Study
IUSS and Coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind is full professor of General Linguistics.
He has been director of the interfaculty program in cognitive neuroscience at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan which he contributed to found in 1996 and associate professor at the University of Bologna. Ph. D. in Linguistics at the university of Padua, he has been Fulbright student and visiting scientist at MIT and at Harvard University several times; he obtained a "Diplòme d’ètudes supèrieures en thèorie de la syntaxe et syntaxe comparative" at the University of Geneva. His main fields of research are theoretical syntax and the neurobiological foundations of human language. Among his contributions are the discovery of inverse copular sentences, the principle of Dynamic Antisymmetry, the neurobiological correlation of "possible" vs. "impossible languages", the effect of negation on premotor cortex activity and the electrophysiological representation of inner speech.
Among his books: The Raising of Predicates (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Dynamic Antisymmetry (MIT Press, 2000), The Boundaries of Babel (MIT Press, 2015 II edition), Breve storia del verbo "essere" (Adelphi, 2010), I speak therefore I am (Columbia University Press, 2016) and The Equilibrium of Human Syntax (Routledge, 2013); he also published several papers on international journals including Nature Neuroscience, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Trends in Cognitive Science, Linguistic Inquiry and Neuroimage. He is member of the Scientific Board of the
Science and Faith Foundation "Science and Faith" Foundation at the Holy See and former member and vice president of the Consulting Board of the Minister of the University for the policy of Research
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Oltre i confini di Babele. Alla ricerca delle sorgenti dell’ordine. Festival della letteratura, Mantova.
Oltre i confini di Babele. Festival della Mente - Sarzana
Stupirsi di fatti semplici Noam Chomsky Marco Bersanelli Andrea Moro. Meeting di Rimini.
Oltre i confini di Babele. Alla ricerca delle fonti dell’ordine, EXPO - Banca Intesa
Video Lectures and Radio Interviews
- Radio DJ il Volo del Mattino con Fabio Volo
- Festival della Letteratura di Mantova
- Salone del libro di Torino, Radio Svizzera Italiana, RSI2
- Lecturing at the Collège de France, Paris 2012 (I)
- Lecturing at the Collège de France, Paris 2012 (II)
- Il cervello e la creazione del linguaggio con D. Ojemann, Fondazione Corriere della Sera
- Struttura del mondo, struttura del linguaggio. Sull’origine della sintassi. Festival di Scienza e Filosofia, Foligno 2012
- Linguaggio, mistero e comunicazione, Rimini Meeting
- Quale bene dalla Scienza con E. Nelson e M. Bersanelli, Rimini Meeting
- Il mistero dell’Unità dell’Io: presentazione di M. Di Francesco e G. Cesana, Rimini Meeting
- Tre conferenze al Festival della Mente di Sarzana, Sarzana 2012
- Radio Vaticana, intervista con Laura De Luca
- Linguaggio e Pensiero, con Letizia Bolzani, Radio Svizzera Italiana RSI Rete2
- Radio Rai Miracolo Italiano, Rai2
- Dall’universo all’Uomo: le vie della nascita - Parlo dunque sono: la nascita del linguaggio, Radio Svizzera Italiana RSI Rete Due
- BergamoScienza 2012 I pronomi messi a fuoco: serata inaugurale con Fabio Volo e Davide Rondoni
- Università Statale di Milano, Fondazione Veronesi 2011
- Dialoghi con Platone, Teatro Stabile di Genova,
Recent and forthcoming events